Date: Fri, 6 Feb 98 23:49:23 EST From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) Reply-To: Suns-at-Home@net-kitchen.com Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #6 To: Suns-at-Home-List Suns-at-Home Digest Fri, 6 Feb 98 Volume 11 : Issue 6 Today's Topics: Internet, EPROMS, and frame buffers, oh my! I would like to improve the colors of my SparcStation 5 need Sun 3 mouse NVRAM FAQ HELP Solaris- Legality? Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #5 (3 msgs) +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Submissions: suns-at-home@net-kitchen.com | | Requests: suns-at-home-request@net-kitchen.com | | WWW Archive access: http://www.net-kitchen.com/~sah | +--------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 06:02:56 -0600 From: peter@taronga.com (Peter da Silva) Subject: Internet, EPROMS, and frame buffers, oh my! To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com First input: >Can any one tell me where can i get a Internet connection >for the SUN machine at home (SS20/ Solaris) I have enquired some of >the ISP's but they have only on Dos/windows .. If they're using standard PPP you should be able to set up ASPPP on your Solaris box to talk to them. When you call, ask what they're using as a terminal server... if it's Ascend, Cisco, Livingston, etc... then it does regular PPP authenticatin (PAP or CHAP). If it's one of those RAS extender boards for NT then it probably only does MS-CHAP and you'll want to move along to the next contender. Another reader asks: >I am looking for a procedure to repair a dead NVRAM on Sparc 1 and 1+. Buy a replacement NVRAM module from Mouser Electronics (www.mouser.com) part number 511-M48T0220PC1, then follow the instructions to burn a new ID. What I did was (after hitting n to get the ok prompt): set-defaults setenv diag-switch? false 0 f mkp ( force the checksum to be wrong ) 8 0 20 BE EF EE BEEFEE mkpl ( it will wait for input ) ^D^R ( these are entered literally to mkpl ) Note that 8 0 20 BE EF EE will be your MAC address. Pick a unique value. The BEEFEE is your hostid. If you have hostid-based software licenses, set it to the old value. Now I have a question... is the performance difference between CG3 and CG6 frame buffers really significant? I've borrowed a CG6 from work and it seems a little faster but before I fork out cash I wanna make sure I'm not just being overoptimistic... - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 08:56:25 +0000 From: "Massimo Brogioni" Subject: I would like to improve the colors of my SparcStation 5 To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com I would like to improve the colors of my SparcStation 5, but I am told the S24 is painfully slow. Is it true ? Is there any better solution ? Ciao MB-) -- "So you think you can tell heaven from hell, blue skies from pain..." Cybermarket SysAdmin Home Page: www.brogio.cybermarket.it - ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 6 Feb 1998 10:41:33 -0500 From: danny@mtu.edu (Dan Miller) Subject: need Sun 3 mouse To: suns-at-home@tigger.net-kitchen.com The title says it all. I picked up a beautiful Sun 3/60 and have it running with NetBSD. I have a Sun 3 keyboard but no mouse or mousepad. I know that I can use a type 4 keyboard and mouse with an adaptor but that seems kind of silly when I already have a perfectly good Sun 3 keyboard. Any help? -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Dan Miller, Lecturer danny@mtu.edu Systems/Network Administrator School of Technology Michigan Technological University office:(906) 487-2259 Houghton, MI 49931 fax: (906) 487-2583 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 08:09:35 -0800 From: steveb.mis@juno.com (Steve B.) Subject: NVRAM FAQ HELP To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com Oops, I should be more thorough before I post, found it at www.rahul.net . I must be getting lazy in my old age! Steve _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866] - ------------------------------ Date: Thu, 5 Feb 1998 01:34:45 -0500 (EST) From: woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods) Subject: Solaris- Legality? To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com > Is NetBSD any different? Can one truly believe that there aren't > undiscovered holes in it, too? Though I'm not privy to the head-counts inside SunSoft and SunService, I'd guess that there are more people looking at the NetBSD code than there are looking at SunOS-5. It's generally accepted that the more people with vastly different interests and goals you have looking at an OS and its tools, the more likely it will be that they'll find and fix security risks (and other bugs) in a much more timely fashion than any commercial software house could. The other telling factor is that NetBSD has long had many bug fixed that were only recently made available as patches to SunOS-5.5 and are only finally supposedly native in 5.6. Finally there's the fact that you have the source to NetBSD and if something is discovered you can usually patch in a fix long before you could even convince Sun to look at it (unless of course you have deep pockets and have Sun effectively on retainer to you through a top-of-the-line SunSolve support contract). Since this is the Suns at *HOME* mailing list I doubt many here have a support contract, and most won't even have under-the-table access to one. PS, if you're really keen on security you might try OpenBSD, which is a NetBSD derivative that claims to have been even more carefully audited. -- Greg A. Woods +1 416 443-1734 VE3TCP Planix, Inc. ; Secrets of the Weird - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 21:57:48 -0500 (EST) From: Jeff Morris Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #5 To: Suns-at-Home-List@tigger.net-kitchen.com > HI, > > Can any one tell me where can i get a Internet connection > for the SUN machine at home (SS20/ Solaris) I have enquired some of > the ISP's but they have only on Dos/windows .. > > Any help will be appreciated. > > Venkat , > > USA, EAST coast. Hi Venkat, Even if an ISP doesn't directly support Sun, you should still be able to use your Sun with a standard PPP account. The PPP connection itself is the same, it's just different software running at your end. At the ISP end, there's no difference. Of course if you can find an ISP which is familiar with Sun and which supports it, that's even better, since they'll be able to assist you if you need it, but from a purely technical perspective, Sun support in particular shouldn't be necessary. I run NetBSD myself, so I can't speak for Solaris, but I imagine it has PPP support built in. I'm sure someone on the list can correct me if I'm wrong. In the odd chance that it only supports SLIP, and not PPP, then you will need to find an ISP which supports SLIP, which can be harder. I don't want to turn this in to an advertisement, but our company does offer both SLIP and PPP in the Boston area, so if you're local to us, you may want to take a look at our web site: http://www.xensei.com/ I hope this info helps out. Jeff Morris - http://www.xensei.com/users/jeffm/ ========================================================================== The Xensei Corporation http://www.xensei.com/ (617) 376-6342 info@xensei.com ========================================================================== - ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 3 Feb 1998 20:29:56 -0800 (PST) From: David Wolfskill Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #5 To: Suns-at-Home@tigger.net-kitchen.com >Date: Tue, 3 Feb 98 09:34:53 EST >From: Dwight McKay (The Moderator) I figured it would make sense to reply to a handful of queries.... >Date: Fri, 30 Jan 1998 21:03:00 -0800 (PST) >From: Kwoody >Subject: HOG partition? >Whats a HOG partition? I see it come up in the install of SunOS. It's a partition, the size of which is not explicitly stated. Rather, its size changes to absorb all remaining disk space after the other partitions are allocated. >- ------------------------------ >Date: Wed, 28 Jan 1998 08:18:06 PST >From: "Venkat D" >Subject: Internet connection from home on analog line !! >Can any one tell me where can i get a Internet connection >for the SUN machine at home (SS20/ Solaris) I have enquired some of >the ISP's but they have only on Dos/windows .. I use a PPP package (ppp-2.2), the "bugs" contact for which is: paulus@cs.anu.edu.au Paul Mackerras Dept. of Computer Science Australian National University Canberra ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA It's fairly old -- I last did anything to/with the sources on 9 March, 1996. I've heard of others, and Sun has a PPP implementation in Solaris 2 (I'm running ppp-2.2 on a 3/60). Also check out http://www.stokely.com. Once you have a working PPP implementation, the ISP shouldn't care what hardware or software you use to generate or consume packets.... >- ------------------------------ >Date: Mon, 26 Jan 1998 01:19:05 -0700 (MST) >From: Alan Fleming >Subject: tape backup >I'm curious what people are using as a tape backup system. The Sun >units seem pretty expensive for what is basically a repackaged Exabyte >system. I'm using a refurbished Archive Python DDS-2 autoloader, purchased from Disk Drive Depot in Sunnyvale, CA (for about $300 less than a new one). >- ------------------------------ >Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 14:26:28 -0600 >From: Kostas Kritsilas >Subject: Thank you for the replies, and another dumb question >Is there any way to get a scanner on the Sparc running >SunOS/Solaris? Obviously this would be a SCSI scanner. I have one >already, a Scanjet III, I think, and was wondering about drivers ( I >understand that this would probably be best done on a Mac or PC, but >I don't have any of those around). Thanks again for any information. Check out URL http://www.mostang.com/sane/. I haven't actually started using what's described there (I'm still at the stage of determining which scanner to get for an SS5/110), but this looks quite promising. >- ------------------------------ david -- David H. Wolfskill david@dhw.vip.best.com As a computing professional, I believe it would be unethical for me to advise, recommend, or support the use (save possibly for personal amusement) of any product that is or depends on any Microsoft product. - ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 4 Feb 1998 10:03:29 -0500 (EST) From: "N.W. Choe" Subject: Suns-at-Home Digest V11 #5 To: Jeff Morris On Tue, 3 Feb 1998, Jeff Morris wrote: |I run NetBSD myself, so I can't speak for Solaris, but I imagine it has |PPP support built in. I'm sure someone on the list can correct me if I'm |wrong. In the odd chance that it only supports SLIP, and not PPP, then you |will need to find an ISP which supports SLIP, which can be harder. Solaris includes PPP, but I believe that only 2.5 and later include support for dynamic IP addresses. Many ISP's have an option for a static IP address, at extra cost, which makes that less of a problem. I haven't used SLIP personally. |I don't want to turn this in to an advertisement, but our company does |offer both SLIP and PPP in the Boston area, so if you're local to us, you |may want to take a look at our web site: http://www.xensei.com/ I don't think we (Xensei) want to take a stab at walking through someone's configuring their Sun box to do PPP, however-- it's not a trivial matter at all; I've done so, and gotten it to do routing as well, but the results were not THAT great. It's a rough ride... but it CAN be done. I actually maintain (maintain is an exaggeration) a Sun-related web site, on which I have some links that I've found useful, including a couple of how-to's on how to get your Sun PPPing. That site is http://boop.xensei.com/sun, which is itself a Sparcstation 2... This is not meant to be an advertisement either ;) -- n-choe@xensei.com "Follow your dreams, you can reach your goals, I'm living proof. Beefcake! BEEFCAKE!" -- Eric Cartman - ------------------------------ End of Suns-at-Home Digest ******************************